Age of the Universe?

So if I was to go with the age of the universe being 13 Billion years old as our experts would say, how would they know that and doesn't that seem like a real long time for nothing to happen except for the last 6,000 years?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

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If you pay attention to technology we have accelled real fast as a race. Did we have help?

This only to get anyone who reads it to think about it.

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Who says nothing's happened except for the past 6,000 years??

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Sorry I meant intellegent life was formed in the last 6,000 years.

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You see with your eyes, I see destruction and demise, Corruption in disguise, from this f***in' enterprise, Now I'm sucking to your lies, in God we Trust though not his muscles but the Life that he provides, with me as a guide, But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eyes, You perceive with your mind, That's the inner, So I'm gonna stick around with God and be a mentor, bust with a few rhymes so mother f***ers Remember where the thought is, I brought all this, So you can survive when law is lawless, Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead, remember no squealing because it's not what God Said....
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Was it?

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"Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it, and that a supernatural dictatorship is our only hope. That makes us all into serfs. And chess and Tantric sex and Chinese food are pointless if you must enjoy them as a serf.'' Christopher Hitchens.

No it wasn't. It was created so long ago. We have just recorded the last 6,000 years and assume nothing else intellegent has happened before that.

Granted there is a lot of unknowns out there, could it be possible that we are just sitting here caught up in our own quarrels of money and power to be to nieve to have the whole planet looking to better ourselves and produce things that benefit us.

Could the real world and more life be just out of our reach and sight because we just fight with each other over materials.

If there are other intellegent beings out there that are civilized and their own societies that may have been alive millions and maybe some billion years before we came about that could have figured out that a team is stronger then I and could be working to one goal of making sure their kind are being taking care of and that there future would be insured against erratication of some sort would that make us, the human race, retards of the universe and on the short bus because we can't get over our lust for power and money instead of helping each other?

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You see with your eyes, I see destruction and demise, Corruption in disguise, from this f***in' enterprise, Now I'm sucking to your lies, in God we Trust though not his muscles but the Life that he provides, with me as a guide, But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eyes, You perceive with your mind, That's the inner, So I'm gonna stick around with God and be a mentor, bust with a few rhymes so mother f***ers Remember where the thought is, I brought all this, So you can survive when law is lawless, Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead, remember no squealing because it's not what God Said....
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Looking for an excuse to monologue?

Western Civilization...
Hell, even the left hand loving Arabs are so far ahead of the game as far as everything else on this planet is concerned, we might as well be Olympians.

Mate, you have to remember that we are an organic fluke in a vast cosmic ballet of matter and energy set to the tune of Entropy d minor. We are seconds away from death at all times. These 6000 years have been a wonderful fairy tale.

We've a little bit of a right to be proud of ourselves.

On the same hand, there could be something that lives in the crust of Neutron Stars that has a superconductor brain and thinks of a fusion bomb as a screw driver.

And you better thank your Homo habbilis ancestor for working his ass off in the thick of it with a stone axe-hammer and a little bit of protein between his ears.

Indeed, neanderthals probably should have been writing thesus papers on the world around them.





Read Carl Sagan's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors if you really want an answer beyond trolling the board. Ill even give you an amazon link

The age of the universe is 48 years, 5 months and 12 days.

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I wondered what that loud noise was a few years ago

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The best foot goes forward.

Just noticed your tagline...about to watch the last two episodes of Life on Mars, Season Two...:O)

Oh, and that loud noise was Shoggie farting..

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lol - I'm glad I was on the other side of the planet (assuming it existed at the time).

The final episode is very good, wraps everything up nicely.

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The best foot goes forward.

dude.. please, take my ass out of your range of daily mental fantasies.

Can we become benevolent yet?
We have been fighting for to long over nothing, no out come and nothing good has came out of it. Really how long has a war between the people being going on? Like over 4,000 years.

We can improve or science and technology with a race working together. I am not talking about a nationality but Human being that race.

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You see with your eyes, I see destruction and demise, Corruption in disguise, from this f***in' enterprise, Now I'm sucking to your lies, in God we Trust though not his muscles but the Life that he provides, with me as a guide, But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eyes, You perceive with your mind, That's the inner, So I'm gonna stick around with God and be a mentor, bust with a few rhymes so mother f***ers Remember where the thought is, I brought all this, So you can survive when law is lawless, Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead, remember no squealing because it's not what God Said....
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Your kind of "benevolence" gets people dead. You got oaveries or testicles, they ain't there for you to be benevolent. They are there for you to fight and struggle and conquer all before you. Benevolence is allowing someone the opportunity to fail.

Go grab a bong and start singing with the hippies! Malthus and Darwin can not be ignored!

6.6 billion people, men on the moon, highspeed internet communications, free trade, republicanism, democracy, increased longevity, disease eradication, transcontinental travel, nuclear power...

Much has been done.

To quote an aquaintence, "a little CHAOS is a good thing".

The dedication that we have to write thesus papers came from barely bipedal apes trying to make poorly shapen axe-hammers so they could suck marrow out of bones. With that same dedication came shit flinging--and I just ate plenty of fiber.

Herd/swarm solutions for a troop species...

You forgot to carry the seven.

And it will continue to go on unti *I* freakin' win, okay?

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She helped me with my suitcase, She stands before my eyes
Driving me to the airport, And to the friendly skies.
Going through security I held her for so long.
She finally looked at me in love, And she was gone.
Just a song before I go, A lesson to be learned.
Travelling twice the speed of sound It's easy to get burned.